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Immigrant Entrepreneurship : New Estimates and a Research Agenda
Chodavadia, Saheel; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new … employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the measurement of immigrant entrepreneurship, the traits of …
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Immigrant entrepreneurship
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016
We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to … into the United States, comprehensive data for quantifying immigrant entrepreneurship are difficult to assemble. We combine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011565661
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Immigration policy levers for U.S. : innovation and startups
Kerr, William R.; Pekkala Kerr, Sari - 2020
Immigrants account for about a quarter of US invention and entrepreneurship despite a policy environment that is not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241073
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Chapter 6. Agglomeration and Innovation
Carlino, Gerald; Kerr, William R. - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 5, (pp. 349-404). 2015
This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then discuss how these factors are frequently measured in the data and note some resulting empirical regularities....
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The survey of industrial R&D-patent database link project
Kerr, William R.; Fu, Shihe - In: The journal of technology transfer 33 (2008) 2, pp. 173-186
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House money and entrepreneurship
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Nanda, Ramana - 2015
During 1992-2007, house price growth is strongly correlated with local entrepreneurship. We show with Census Bureau …-lived. Using a 1998 Texas reform that allowed home equity lending for the rst time in the state, we isolate that entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011305112
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Political reservations and women's entrepreneurship in India
Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; O'Connell, Stephen D. - 2014
heightened entrepreneurship is due to channels like greater finance access or heightened inspiration for women entrepreneurs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010259263
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Entrepreneurship as experimentation
Kerr, William R.; Nanda, Ramana; Rhodes-Kropf, Matthew - 2014
Entrepreneurship research is on the rise but many questions about its fundamental nature still exist. We argue that … entrepreneurship is about experimentation: the probabilities of success are low, extremely skewed and unknowable until an investment is …
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Clusters of entrepreneurship
Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, William R.; Ponzetto, Giacomo … - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003886457
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Clusters of entrepreneurship
Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, William R.; Ponzetto, Giacomo … - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003889740